‎'‎Unlike many previous literary histories‎,‎ this will be read ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ David Wallace‎'‎s history is the work of many gifted contributors‎,‎ a consummate editor‎,‎ and a publishing house investing its resources as only a great press can‎.‎‎'‎ James Simpson ‎'‎ ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ many of the contributors‎,‎ have taken their opportunity to reorganise areas of the literacy of the British Isles with great originality and learning ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ a striking modernist project‎'‎‎.‎ The Times Literary Supplement ‎'‎The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature provides a formidable set of tools for the critic of medieval literature ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ The unobtrusive editorial presence that allows chapters with widely diverging approaches is a useful and mature reflection of the accommodation of plurality required for an intelligent reading of medieval literature ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ This is a scholarly and erudite publication‎.‎‎'‎ The Times ‎'‎Not only a veritably new history of medieval English literature but also an exemplary instance of literary history in the age of post‎-modernity‎.‎‎'‎ Yasunari Takada‎,‎ The Univer‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎